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WFNS Annual General Meeting 2026 (virtual)

Attend the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia’s 2026 Annual General Meeting, chaired by WFNS President Joanne Gallant, to hear from WFNS’s staff and outgoing Board of Directors, review the annual financial statements, and get up-to-date on our plans for weathering the provincial defunding of the arts.

Attending General Members will also elect candidates to the incoming Board of Directors.

Location: Zoom

Date: Monday, June 15 (7:00pm – 8:30pm)

Advanced registration required

The AGM agenda, reports, and other important documents will be added below as they become available. All documents will be available by June 5.

Register to attend
Agenda for AGM 2025
Minutes of AGM 2024
Annual Report
for 2024/2025
Financial Statements
for 2024/2025
Continuing Directors and Candidates
for 2025/2026 Board
Digital ballot
for 2025/2026 Board
Budget
for 2025/2026
Agenda for First Meeting
of 2025/2026 Board (revised June 16)

Interested in running for election to WFNS’s Board of Directors?

During each Annual General Meeting, directors are elected (or re-elected) to fill all available vacancies on the Board of Directors. On average, six directors are elected (or re-elected) each year.

All eligible candidates are included on the election ballot. In addition, candidacy statements are reviewed in advance of the AGM by the Recruitment & Nominating Committee of the Board of Directors, which selects a limited slate of candidates to ‘endorse’ (i.e., to encourage General Members to elect). Endorsements are noted when candidacy statements are circulated to voting members.

Please note that candidacy must be declared in writing through the form below, which is available until the written candidacy deadline. We have discontinued the option to declare candidacy orally during the AGM.

If you’re unfamiliar with how WFNS’s Board of Directors operates, please first consult our guide, Becoming a WFNS Board Member. You may direct any unanswered questions to contact@writers.ns.ca.

Candidacy statements accepted until May 14, 2026

For two-year Director term to begin June 15, 2026

Expression-of-interest form

When the below form is successfully submitted, it will be replaced with a confirmation message.

All information entered into this form (except for your email address) will be included in the Annual General Meeting documents to be made publicly available on the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia website for at least the 14 days immediately prior to the upcoming Annual General Meeting. If your candidacy is endorsed by the Recruitment & Nominating Committee, the endorsement will be noted in those documents.
Of the eight (8) to twelve (12) Directors on each year's Board, only four (4) may be General Members who are not also Writers' Council members. If you do not hold but are eligible to apply for Writers' Council membership (link opens in a new tab), please apply as soon as possible to ensure you are eligible for election to any of the available Director seats.
Board Officers are not elected at the AGM by General Members. Rather, they are elected immediately after the AGM, at the first meeting of the incoming Board, by their fellow incoming, continuing, and re-elected Directors. However, each candidate's interest in filling a specific Board Officer position should be presented for General Members' consideration during the AGM vote.
Please consult the Committee Terms of Reference (PDF opens in a new tab) for each Standing Committee's purpose, roles, and responsibilities. Two Standing Committees are not listed above because they are automatically populated by specific Board Officers: the Finance Committee (Treasurer and President, along with WFNS's Executive Director) and the Personnel Committee (President and Vice President, along with WFNS's most recent Past-President).
If you are elected to the Board, this biographical statement will be published on our Staff and Board page (opens in a new tab).

Interested in volunteering on a committee of WFNS’s Board of Directors?

Immediately after each Annual General Meeting, the incoming Board of Directors meet for the first time to elect the Board Officers and appoint a chair for each Board Committee. These committee chairs recruit General and Writers’ Council Members to several standing Board Committees and any ad-hoc committees that require participation from outside the Board.

If you’re interested in helping to shape WFNS but have limited hours to volunteer, joining a Board Committee may be the right opportunity for you.

For questions about specific Board committees, please first consult our Committee Terms of Reference. You may direct any unanswered questions to contact@writers.ns.ca.

Committee expressions-of-interest accepted until June 14, 2026

For one-year committee participation to begin June 16, 2026

Expression-of-interest form

When the below form is successfully submitted, it will be replaced with a confirmation message.

Please consult the Committee Terms of Reference (PDF opens in a new tab) for information on each Committee's purpose, roles, and responsibilities.
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Experience Levels

The Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia (WFNS) uses the following terms to describe writers’ experience levels:

  • New writers: those with less than two years’ creative writing experience and/or no short-form publications (e.g., short stories, personal essays, or poems in literary magazines, journals, anthologies, or chapbooks).
  • Emerging writers: those with more than two years’ creative writing experience and/or numerous short-form publications.
  • Early-career authors: those with 1 or 2 book-length publications or the equivalent in book-length and short-form publications.
  • Established authors: those with 3 or 4 book-length publications.
  • Professional authors: those with 5 or more book-length publications.

Please keep in mind that each form of creative writing (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, writing for children, writing for young adults, and others) provides you with a unique set of experiences and skills, so you might consider yourself an ‘established author’ in one form but a ‘new writer’ in another.

Occasionally, WFNS uses the phrase “emerging and established writers/authors” to mean ‘writers and authors of all experience levels.’

The “Recommended experience level” section of each workshop description refers to the above definitions. A workshop’s participants should usually have similar levels of creative writing and / or publication experience. This ensures that each participant gets value from the workshop⁠ and is presented with info, strategies, and skills that suit their experience. 

For “intensive” and “masterclass” workshops, which provide more opportunities for peer-to-peer feedback, the recommended experience level should be followed closely.

For all other workshops, the recommended experience level is just that—a recommendation—and we encourage potential participants to follow their own judgment when registering.

If uncertain about your experience level with respect to any particular workshop, please feel free to contact us at communications@writers.ns.ca